The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-08-26

SECRETARY ana MIS-. Lamar lett W ASH
ington on the 18th for an extended vacation
in the White mountains.
A CABINET Council was held at Washing
ton on the 18th. The fisheries and financla
questions were under consideration.
The trial Of Assistant Surgeon Crawford
charged with criminal intimacy with Ev,
White, the fourteen year old daughter o.
DR.. White, Of Washington. ended in don
victiou, and he was sentenced to twelve
months Imprisonment.
THE EAST.
An Albany special to the New York
World says: The story published al
leglng q contest between Colonel Oar
Lamont and ox-Secretary Daniel Manning
for the control Of the Albany Argus. and
connecting the President with the affair, il
denied by Colonel Lamont.
DR. BRIDGE, the State Veterinary Sur.
geon, recently visited Manor township,
near Lancaster, Pa, to investigate An al.
legged case Of pleure-pneumOnia No traces
OF the disease were found, and the doctor
stated that there was not q case in Penn
sylvania.
The corner stone of the Bennington (Vt.)
battle monument was laid on the 10th in the
presence of the Governors of Vermont,
New Hampshire and Massachusetts, and q
large number OF spectators.
JOHN J. REILLY, aged twenty-five, fore
man Of the scratch shop of Rathboun. Sard
& Co.'S stove foundry. Albany, n. Y, dis
appeared one morning recently. Two days
after his body was found In an oven for
baking ladies'. 1t was presumed he went
in there and lying down, fell asleep. Fire
was started and the door Of the oven was
then locked. His presence not being no
ticed, he was baked for about forty hours.
A DISEASE, said to be Texas fever, has
broken out among the cattle in the neigh
borhood Of Oswego, N. Y.
FOUR persons were killed by the Newport
express train, which struck Q carriage at
Five Mile River, Conn, on the night of the
18th.
Four persons were killed by the Newport
express train, which struck carriage at
Five Mile River, Conn.,, on tho night of the
10th.
Ten large ice houses owned BY Colonel C..
L. Barrett, Of Cleveland, o., at Chautauqua
lake, n. Y, and six freight cars were de-
stroyed by fire recently, causing $70,OOO
loss.
THE Standard Oil Company recently
asked United States Marshal Stafford. of
New York, for protection to their new
Town Creek property, asserting that their
striking employees threatened to obstruct
the passage of boats on the creek The re-
quest was refused.
The Pennsylvania Republican convention
met at Harrisburg on the 18th. Captain
William b. Hart was nominated for State
Treasurer; Henry w. Williams, Supreme
Judge. The platform Endorsed James G.
Blame for the Presidency.
Tue Thistle arrived at New York on the
10th and is being prepared for the race with
the Volunteer for the Americas cup.
AT the Pacific Mail directors meeting at
New York on the 18th the executive com.
mittee was ordered to take steps to reduce
the capital stock one-half, and if this is
done the payment of dividends will be re-
Sumed at once.
TIE Universal Peace Union at New Lon
don, Conn, recently passed resolutions
looking to the establishment of arbitration
instead OF war, favoring general disarma-
ment and the substitution of international
courts for military systems; favoring
woman suffrage, prohibition, justice for
ireland and conciliatory policy with the In
dams, and denouncing capital punishment
GUzMAN BLANCo, President of Venezuela,
was in New York recently. He complained
of British seizures of territory of Venezue-
II, and said the object of the British was to
obtain possession of the mouth of the Orino-
CO. He wanted the United States to inter-
fere.
The falling of an elevator in G. Lidein-
berg & Co.'s building. on Mercer street,
New York, recently, resulted in the death
OF one woman, fatally injury Of q man.
and slight injury to about Q dozen girls.
The elevator boy was unable to work the
catches and the elevator, which was hesv-
lily loaded with work people, was precipl-
tated to the bottom.
PROP. FOWLER, the phrenolo9ist and Ice
turer, died at Sharon, Conn, on the 18th.
of spinal trouble.
MALCOLM FORD was reported dangerously
i'll at the Long Island College Hospital.
Brooklyn. His constitution was ruined by
excessive training while champion all
round athlete. Three surgical operations
were performed without avail and his case
was considered hopeless.
Two passenger engines ran away within
the yards Of the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company at Philadelphia tho other night,
and the engineers, named Morris Thompson
and Joseph Kelly, received what was
Thought to be fstal injuries. The locomo-
tives were totally destroyed.
1kOf- MEIBOWITZE, "A. II. IN. d.. one OF
the most learned Hebrew scolars and bib
biological students in this country, died at
New York on the 18th in his seventy.
seventh year, Prof. Meyrowitze was born
in wilma, Poland, August, 1910. His par
ents were Jews and he WAS educated. for
the rab5inical chair.
The schooner Lizzie Wilson, from Balti.
more to Boston, was sunk recently OF
Barnegat, N. j., by collision with the
steamship Atlas. The wife and daughter
of the captain and two sailors were
drowned.
PROF. SPENCER F. BAIRD, of the Fish
Commission, died at Woods Holl, Mass, on
the 18th.
UTHE United Labor party in convention at
Syracuse, N. Y, on the 18th, nominated the
following ticket: Secretary Of State, Henry
George. Of New York; Comptroller, Victor
A. Walker, Of Kings; State Treasurer, b.
II. Cummings, Of Montgomery; Attorney
General, Dennis C. Feelery. of Monroe;
State Engineer and Surveyor, Sylyanus A |
Sweet, of Broome.
Hon. GEORGE II. STEVENS has resigned |
the Office Of deputy United States attorney |
for the District Of Massachusetts, on &C |
eoant Of poor health.